connecting to wireless network

Hi, I just installed suse linux and this is my first linux o/s. I am
trying to connect to my home wirless network it does have encryption.
The Yast hardware sees my wireless card but I can not seem to figure out
how to make the connection. Any help would be super. Thanks

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:30:35 +0000, ke6lld wrote:

> Hi, I just installed suse linux and this is my first linux o/s. I am
> trying to connect to my home wirless network it does have encryption. The
> Yast hardware sees my wireless card but I can not seem to figure out how
> to make the connection. Any help would be super. Thanks

What encryption are you using?

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On 23.12.2005 16:30, ke6lld@juno.com wrote:

> Hi, I just installed suse linux and this is my first linux o/s. I am
> trying to connect to my home wirless network it does have encryption.
> The Yast hardware sees my wireless card but I can not seem to figure out
> how to make the connection. Any help would be super. Thanks

You may have a better chance for a helpful answer if you include:
- the version of SuSE you have
- the type of wireless adapter
- the type of encryption your network uses (WEP, WPA, number of bits)

Just for comparison, I had surprisingly little trouble connecting a
Centrino laptop running SuSE 9.3 to a WLAN using WPA-PSK. In fact, the
only hitch was to avoid 8 bit characters (in this case, German umlauts)
in the passphrase. Everything else just worked out of the box by
configuring intuitively (read: without bothering to read the docs) in YaST.

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Bonn, Germany
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

HI,

I just installed the suse linux version 10. The encryption is WEP and it
is 128 bit. The adapter is an Atheros AR5001X+. I have been trying to
get it to work, but I get stuck in the fact that I can not seem to find a
utility that will roam for wireless access points. Like windows has the
zero config utility which just runs and looks for all open access
points. I know the o/s has installed my wireless card I can find it in
the hardware but I can not figure the correct settings to connect to my
wireless access point. Thanks for the help.

ke6lld@juno.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> HI,
>
> I just installed the suse linux version 10. The encryption is WEP and
> it
> is 128 bit. The adapter is an Atheros AR5001X+. I have been trying
> to get it to work, but I get stuck in the fact that I can not seem to
> find a
> utility that will roam for wireless access points. Like windows has
> the zero config utility which just runs and looks for all open access
> points. I know the o/s has installed my wireless card I can find it
> in the hardware but I can not figure the correct settings to connect
> to my
> wireless access point. Thanks for the help.

Kwifimanager will search for access points if you are using KDE

Have a look in the menu Internet>Data exchange>Kwifimanager

HTH
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Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

> ke6lld@juno.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > I just installed the suse linux version 10. The encryption is WEP and
> > it
> > is 128 bit. The adapter is an Atheros AR5001X+. I have been trying
> > to get it to work, but I get stuck in the fact that I can not seem to
> > find a
> > utility that will roam for wireless access points. Like windows has
> > the zero config utility which just runs and looks for all open access
> > points. I know the o/s has installed my wireless card I can find it
> > in the hardware but I can not figure the correct settings to connect
> > to my
> > wireless access point. Thanks for the help.
>
> Kwifimanager will search for access points if you are using KDE
>
> Have a look in the menu Internet>Data exchange>Kwifimanager
>
> HTH
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>
Hi,
Thanks for the help I am using the KDE desktop but the menu Internet>Data
exchange>Kwifimanager is not there there is no program by that name. I
went direct to the KDE website I found the .rpm files and I downloaded
them but they do not install that way. Should I reinstall the o/s maybe
it did not install correctally. Everything else seems to be working fine
except the internet it does see all the hardware but I can not connect
through my router or wireless cable modem.

thanks for the help

ke6lld@juno.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:


> Hi,
> Thanks for the help I am using the KDE desktop but the menu
> Internet>Data
> exchange>Kwifimanager is not there there is no program by that name.
> I went direct to the KDE website I found the .rpm files and I
> downloaded
> them but they do not install that way. Should I reinstall the o/s
> maybe
> it did not install correctally. Everything else seems to be working
> fine except the internet it does see all the hardware but I can not
> connect through my router or wireless cable modem.
>
> thanks for the help

Nah!!! you do not need to re-install at all, you just need to install
the:

../DVD1/suse/i586/kdenetwork3-wireless-3.4.2-11.i586.rpm:
The package contains KWiFiManager, a tool to configure wireless cards.

That is the output of the pin command it shows that here the wifi
manager is contained in the above package on the DVD ( not sure if it
is also on the CD`s )

HTH
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Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp